Competition Law and Patent Licensing in India – CCI Jurisdiction, SEPs, FRAND and the Definitive Ericsson Rulings Patents and competition law sit in a relationship of permanent structural tension. A patent is, by design, a legal monopoly that the State grants an inventor the exclusive right to prevent all others from making, using, selling, or
A poem written by ChatGPT. A painting produced by Midjourney from a two-line prompt. A news article drafted by a large language model trained on millions of copyrighted sources. A film score composed entirely by an algorithmic system without a human composer touching an instrument. These are not hypothetical scenarios from a speculative future; they
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High Court of Judicature at Bombay, Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction | Decided: 19 January 2026 Interim Application No. 4642 of 2025 in Commercial IP Suit No. 336 of 2024 Bench: Hon’ble Ms. Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh Citation: 2026:BHC-OS:141 Background The Supreme Industries Limited, the plaintiff, is a company that conceived and adopted the trade mark
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The right of publicity is the legal right of an individual to control the commercial use of their identity their name, image, likeness, voice, signature and other recognizable attributes of their persona. It is a right that sits at the intersection of intellectual property law, personality rights and the law of torts and its significance
When a court of competent jurisdiction grants an injunction restraining a defendant from using a particular trademark, the natural expectation is that compliance is straightforward the defendant ceases the infringing use and the dispute, at least at the interlocutory stage, is resolved. In practice, however, defendants frequently do not simply stop. They modify the mark,
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Technology has always unsettled the creative economy and the law has always chased to catch up. But no technological development in the history of the entertainment industry has created as direct, as immediate and as commercially devastating a threat to individual performers as generative artificial intelligence voice cloning and deepfake video synthesis. These technologies do
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India carries within its borders one of the most extraordinary concentrations of living folk and traditional artistic heritage on earth. Madhubani painting from Bihar, Warli art from Maharashtra’s tribal communities, Pattachitra scroll painting from Odisha, Baul music from the rural riverbanks of Bengal and Bangladesh, Gond art from Madhya Pradesh, Bharatanatyam and Kuchipuri and Odissi
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High Court of Delhi | 31 January 2026 Case Number: FAO-IPD 37/2021 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia Citation: Citation to be verified BACKGROUND The present appeal was filed by the appellant, Amit Bansal, under Order XLIII Rule 1 read with Section 151 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (“CPC”), challenging the order dated
High Court of Delhi | 22 June 2026 Case Number: CS(COMM) 346/2026, I.A. 9898/2026, I.A. 9911/2026 & I.A. 10797/2026 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tushar Rao Gedela BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Devans Modern Breweries Limited, claims to have been founded in 1961 by industrialist Shri Dewan Gian Chand and to be one of the leading manufacturers of
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High Court of Delhi | 17 January 2026 Case Number: CS(COMM) 84/2025 Bench: Hon’ble Mr. Justice Tejas Karia BACKGROUND The plaintiff, Alkem Laboratories Limited, was established in 1973 and is engaged in research and development, manufacturing, marketing, distribution and sale of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products in India and in international markets, with a presence in
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